Joint H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT analysis of the region around PSR J1813-1749

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Authors
  • T. Wach
  • A.M.W. Mitchell
  • V. Joshi
  • S. Funk
Publication date 27-09-2024
Journal Proceedings of Science
Event 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023
Article number 589
Volume | Issue number 444
Number of pages 10
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract

HESS J1813-178 is one of the brightest sources detected during the first HESS Galactic Plane survey. The compact source, also detected by MAGIC, is believed to be a pulsar wind nebula powered by one of the most powerful pulsars known in the Galaxy, PSR J1813-1749 with a spindown luminosity of E = 5.6 · 1037 erg s-1. With its extreme physical properties, as well as the pulsar's young age of 5.6 kyrs, the γ-rays detected in this region allow us to study the evolution of a highly atypical system. Previous studies of the region in the GeV energy range show emission extended beyond the size of the compact H.E.S.S. source. Using the archival H.E.S.S. data with improved background methods, we perform a detailed morphological and spectral analysis of the region. Additionally to the compact, bright emission component, we find significantly extended emission, whose position is coincident with HESS J1813-178. We reanalyse the region in GeV and derive a joint-model in order to find a continuous description of the emission in the region from GeV to TeV. Using the results derived in this analysis, as well as X-ray and radio data of the region, we perform multi-wavelength spectral modeling. Possible hadronic or leptonic origins of the γ-ray emission are investigated, and the diffusion parameters necessary to explain the extended emission are examined.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.0589
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85212292937
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